la nury 5, 1924 



■IT 



){ farm land for 



was decreased 



red with valua- 



ase in valuation 

 ist $2,000,000 in 



ut it. It is the 

 ;ople, the result 



It first started 

 . began to study 

 e some need for 

 lis problem. At 



apparent that 

 ds were higher, 

 1 assessed valua- 



e proof started. 



spent weeks in 

 iviestigations to 

 ;ssors were first 

 1 was ' taken ui) 



and later with 

 ; proof of a real 

 eau. Often the 

 ts at hand than 

 tate. 

 12,000,000 is the 



through organ- 

 ilf the reduction 

 his year, and it 



connected with 



is reason to be ' 

 nish the job. 



CK FREIGHT 



mixed carloads 

 3t three months ' 

 ring it was esti- 



saving Illinois 

 )is farmers ship 

 ixed carloads of 



was shippei 

 le year, the cash 

 ing remains in 

 mil be $270,000. 



PUTURE f 



■-operative Dairy i 

 : the net amount ; 

 lace in an emer- 1 

 growing until it 

 le to the largest 

 ness. While it 

 ^r, it is the inten- 

 loney for him in 



January 5, T924 



The Illinois Agricultural Association Record 



Pace 3 



the "co-op" says, 



for today alone 

 ood reserve just 

 iiness institution ' 



ccounts or some' 

 und is available . 

 in the producers 

 a producer goes ; 

 ks from the com- ] 

 ;a share of the 

 as it has reached j 

 ) this emergency ; 

 erves, for depre- ] 

 interest, taxes, j 

 rhead items. 



RETURNED 



mately 19,000 

 Producers Com- 

 'eoria. East St. 



irges to Illinois 

 e neighborhood 



forward Farm Bureau— A Year of I. A. A. Work 



OVER 31,000 SIGN 

 DURING YEAR IN 45 

 FARM BUREAUS 



Organization Department Sells Bureau 



Accomplishments to Farmers 



of State 



G. E. Metzger 



"No apologies need to be offered 

 for the work of the farm bureau, 

 county, state and national," says 

 G. E. Metzger in making the an- 

 nual report of 

 the Organiza- 

 tion Department. 

 "Their accom- 

 plishments are 

 plentiful," he 

 states. 



"The big work 

 facing the de- 

 partment in the 

 future is to sell 

 the accomplish- 

 ments to the 

 ments to the farmers of the state," 

 Mr. Metzger says. 



Signed 31,000 



J!)uring the year organization 

 work Jias been carried on in 45 

 counties and membership cam- 

 paigns have been completed in 33 

 counties. Some clean-up member- 

 ship work remains to be done in 12 

 counties. In addition to work in 

 these 45 counties, clean-up work 

 carried over from last year has been 

 completed in II counties. In these 

 campaigns over 31,000 members 

 have been signed up for a three- 

 year period. 



Township Unit Plan 

 Toward the close of the year a 

 new plan of organization was tried 

 out in seven counties. Instead of 

 having one county school of in- 

 struction for local solicitors, three 

 such meetings were held in each 

 township, teaching from 7 to 15 

 men in each community how to 

 solicit membership. After three 

 days of teaching the fourth day the 

 men attending the three township 

 meetings are called together for 

 final instructions and are assigned 

 territory to solicit. 



The township membership is then 

 cleaned up before the county or- 

 ganization director and I. A. A. 

 man leave the township which docs 

 away with the long drawn-out 

 clean-up campaign which accom- 

 panies the county unit plan of re- 

 organization. 



In discussing the neighbor-sign- 

 ueighbor method of campaigns Mr. 

 Metzger says that it has trained 

 from 50 to 300 men in each county 

 to sell the farm bureau to their 

 neighbors and to meet opposition 

 in quite an eflfective way. 



Community Clubs 



Without exception the cost of 

 reorganization is lower in counties 

 where community organizations 

 have been developed, Mr. Metzgtfri 

 states. Through community meet- 

 ings a connecting link is established 

 with the membership. 



"We observe that where the 

 membership is meeting regularly in 

 community meetings, studying the 

 V problems of agriculture and prob- 

 ably not devoting all of their time 

 to hard work, but spending some 

 time socially, the leadership has de- 

 veloped so that it is a comparatively 

 easy task to carry on work in that 

 community/' Mr. Metzger says in 

 his report. 



Recommends Local Clubs 

 "We recommend local commu- 

 nity organization as one of the 

 projects which should be featured 



THEY GOVERNED THE I. A. A. IN 1923 



S. H. Thompson 



Lots for L A, A. 

 to Do Yet, Says 

 Pres. Thompson 



"We don't need to be discouraged 

 because all of our problems have not 

 been solved this year," says Presi- 

 dent S. H. Thompson. "Of course 

 we would like to be strong' enough 

 to be a real factor in marketing, but 

 after all the I. A. A. has had only 

 four years of real organization 

 work, and in that time we have had 

 difficulty in finding ourselves. 



"There is one thing sure — organ- 

 ization of farmers is the way to 

 ^olve our problems. We can't do 

 without it. It is common talk that 

 if this thing fails, the effects of it 

 will be felt for twenty-five years. 



"This organization has got to go 

 on and stabilize prices. There is no 

 sfnse in hogs being worth fifty 

 cents more today than yesterday. 

 The grain market is so sensitive that 

 it is subject to a telegram or a 

 drought scare. The organization 

 is a fizzle if it does not solve this 

 big problem." 



/. yi. A. Seeks Equal 

 Distribution of T. B. 

 Indemnity Funds 



Approximately 75 per cent of the 

 state and federal indemnity appro- 

 priation of over $700,000 yearly i~ 

 l>ein(r used in the 43 counties Avliicli 

 have employed area veterinarians, 

 while the remaining 25 per cent is 

 spread over the 59 counties which 

 have made no appropriation, states 

 M. H. Petersen, in charge of tu- 

 berculosis eradication wrork for the 

 I. A. A. 



"The amount of tax<^ contributei 

 to the indemnity appropriation is 

 proportionally the same in everv 

 county in Illinois," he declares, 

 "but the farmers in counties whicli 

 have not appropriated money to 

 hire an area veterinarian are payin:; 

 for the reactors found in the herds 

 of farmers who live in counties that 

 have." 



To correct this state of aflfairs. the 

 I. A. A. is giving help to many 

 County Farm Bureaus to aid them 

 in securing appropriations from 

 their Boards of Supervisors ft*r 

 funds to hire area veterinarians. 



during the present organization 

 period. It is the belief of the de- 

 partment that if community organ- 

 ization can be developed and a good 

 program worked out which will fit 

 the needs of each community, the 

 cost of organization in the future 

 will be materially reduced." 



Lawrence, Pulaski, Jeflferson and 

 White counties, not heretofore af- 

 filiated with the I. A. A., were re- 

 organized durinc the yew under the 

 joint mm'bership plan. ; . 



I. A. A. EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE FOR 192$ 



Top row: A. O. E ckert, Belleville, vice-president; Henry McGough, 

 Maple Park, 11th district; G. F. Tullock. Rockford, I2th district. 



Second row: r p Ramhornii^ h Polo, 13th district; W H Mo^d v. 

 Port Byron, 14th district; H. E. Goe mbel, Hoopole, 15th district; G. E. 

 Reder, Mendota. 16th district. ' 



Third row: F. D. Barton , Corne ll. 17th district; C. R. Finley. Hoo|>cs- 

 ton, 18th district: D. J. Holterman, Sadorus, I9th district; E ^rl Ij. Smit h. 

 Detroit. 20lh district. 



Fourth row: E. L. Corbin,Carlinville, 21st district; Carleton Trimble, 

 Trimble, 23rd district; Curt Andersqn. Xen ia. 24th district; X' ernon Less 

 ley.__Spaita, 25th district. : ■ I 



Not in picture : Stanl ey Cast le.l Alton, 22nd district. I 



FARMERS SECURE 

 BENEHCIAL LAWS 

 AT SPRINGFIELD 



Co-op Ad, T. B. Measires and 



Inspection Laws All Sectin 



Passafe 



The Co-operative Marketing Act 

 stands out as the big piece of state 

 legislation passed at the last session 

 of the Illinois Legislature at Springs 

 field. From the time the 4)ill was 

 introduced early in the session until 

 it was passed in the closing days, 

 the I. A. A. Legislative Committee 



Legal Department Doesn\t 

 Bring $$ But It Saves 



em 



You can't always figure up the 

 value of an I. A. A. department by 

 the amount of money it saves the 

 ^^^^^^ farm bureau 



^Pl^^^k membership i n 



I j^^^ ^°''' cash. Such 



^^^^^^L true the 



|?^B^^H Legal Depart- 

 \ "^^^^W ment of the as- 

 \*''^^^H^ sociation, com- 

 N||^^^^^^ posed of Newton 

 ^M^^^^l Jenkins. Di- 

 ^^^^* ^^^^^* rector, and Don- 

 Newton Jenkini aid Kirkpatrick. 

 But whenever another department 

 desires assistance in legally setting 

 up a co-operative association, or a 

 co-operative organization wishes to 

 reorganize, or a county farm bureau 

 wishes to incorporate, all find that 

 lawyers are pretty handy to prevent 

 possible legal pitfalls which would 

 be disastrous later on. 



Bureaus Helped 

 The work which the Legal De- 

 partment is doing for county farm 

 bureaus is each year becoming more 

 extensive, says Mr. Jenkins in his 

 annual report. Legal assistance has 

 been given to 64 county bureaus, 

 this year. Fifteen have been incor- 

 porated with help from the depart- 

 ment. Some have had their char- 

 ters amended so as to broaden their 

 powers. Personal matters efTectini; 



members have often been referred 

 by farm advisers to the depBrtmenr: 



Aids Tax Work 



When John C. Watson wished to 

 find out just how far the I. A. A. 

 could legally go in its tax investiga- 

 tions, he consulted the Le^al De- 

 partment, which also assisted, in 

 presenting evidence before the Illi- 

 nois Tax Commission. 



Thirty-eight shipping associations 

 have been incorporated during 1923 

 with the aid of the department, co- 

 operating with C. A. Stewaft of the 

 Livestock Marketing Department. 



Assists with Legislation 

 "Thefe was more legislation of 

 interest to agriculture secur«d at the 

 last session than has been i>btained 

 in many pilcvious sessions of the 

 General Assembly," states Mr. Jen- 

 kins in his report. "The Legal De- 

 partment rendered some alsistance 

 to the Legislative Committee both 

 in the preparation and interpretation 

 of various measures considered dur- 

 ing the session." : 



Every other department of the i 

 I. A. A., Finance, Limestone-Phos- 

 phate, Transportation, Fruit and 

 Vegetable Marketing, Dairy Mar- 

 keting, have all received legal aid 

 from Mr. Jenkins and Mr Kirkpat-'' 

 rvk 



was on hand to see it through. Al- 

 ready a number of co-operative mar- 

 keting organizations ^avc found it 

 to their advantage to organize un- 

 der the new act and several others 

 are planning reorganization under 

 the act. 



Three T. B. Laws 



Three laws with the aim of eradi- 

 cating bovine tuberculosis .were 

 passed, all championed by the Farm 

 Bureau. First came the appropria- 

 tion of a million dollars to assist in 

 payment for condemned cattle. 



K law was passed permitting the 

 stpte to pay out money up "to ^he 

 limit of tlie appropriation to the felt- 

 tent of' two-thirds of the appraised 

 value of animals condemned, in case 

 the Federal Government should 

 withdraw its support or its funds 

 be inadequate. The third law per- 

 mitted county boards to appropriate 

 money t'o carry on eradication work. 



Inspection Law 

 A law making possible standard 

 grades of farm products and inspec- 

 tion by the state at local shipping 

 points was enacted. The Illinois 

 Fruit Exchange made good use of 

 the inspection service this year, and 

 the poultrymcn found that it was 

 just the legislation needed in setting 

 up their new hatchery and farm 

 flock inspection plan. 



For Dairymen 



The committee hen>ed dairy in- 

 terests to secure the Truth in Ad- 

 vertising Law, prohibiting the use 

 of dairy terms in advcrtifting dairy 

 substitutes, and the Filled Milk 

 Law which prohibits the manufac- 

 turc_and sale^of fake milk products. 



Newspapers Serve 

 Farm Bureau with 

 Special Editions 



\A.Wj;1 



That Illinois newspapers, both 

 daily and weekly, are fully alive to 

 the importance of the Farm Bureau 

 is shown by the fact that 36 special 

 Farm Bureau Editions of newspa- 

 pers have been published during 

 1924 in every part of the State in 

 connection with reorganization cam- 

 paigns. 



Preparation of these editions, 

 which varied in size from 8 to 38 

 pages, shows what can be secured 

 through co-operation, for newspa- 

 per.s county farm bureaus, the 

 I. .\. A. Information and Organiza- 

 tion Departments, and tfce .American 

 Farm Bureau Information Service 

 co-operated to make the editions 

 tell the Farm Bureau etory 



